News Archive

Food for fines to benefit Creighton Cupboard

Good news – you can help combat food insecurity on the Creighton Campus and pay your library fees at the same time, before you head home for the holidays!

The Reinert Alumni Memorial Library and the Health Sciences Library are accepting donations of non-perishable, unexpired food items at a rate of one item per $1.00 owed. All items collected will be donated to the Creighton Cupboard.

You can clear up to $10 in combined overdue fees or lost item processing fees (where no item replacement fees are owed). Fees for document delivery, damaged item fees, and interlibrary loan fees do not qualify.

Posted December 4, 2018

Closing 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 6th!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Health Sciences Library will be closing at 10pm on Sunday, January 6th, 2019.

Study rooms are going keyless!

Starting January 2019, study rooms at the Health Sciences Library (HSL) will be keyless. The reservation system does not change – you still reserve study rooms online through the HSL website. Go directly to your reserved room, because you no longer check out a key at the service desk. Monitors will be near the rooms to display reservations.

The 4 classrooms scheduled by Centralized Reservations, and the 3 sections of the Thune Seminar Room are not changing. You still need to check out a key from the service desk.

New titles and editions in AccessMedicine

These books are either new titles or new editions. The review questions are in a question bank. To create a quiz from the question bank, you must complete the free registration for a MyAccess account. Contact the reference staff at refdesk@creighton.edu or (402) 280-5138 if you have questions.

Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source new for 2018

The library has licensed access for Creighton University students and faculty to the Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source (DOSS) database on the EBSCOhost platform.

DOSS, is an index to dentistry and oral sciences literature, contains indexing and abstracts of nearly 350 academic journals in all areas of dentistry (260 with full-text articles some have embargoes from 6 to 18 months) and 31 full-text books. There is also cited reference searching for more than 120 journals.

Dedication of the One Button Studio

The One Button Studio will be dedicated Friday, Aug. 3 at 10:30 a.m. Join the Lickteig family as we dedicate and bless the newly equipped One Button Studio in the Health Sciences Library, Bio Information Center. The Lickteig family has generously donated funds to equip the One Button Studio in remembrance of Sr. Raymarie Lickteig (former librarian at the Health Sciences Library, 1978-88). The Rev. Paul Lickteig, SJ will conduct the blessing. Refreshments will be served.

The HSL One Button Studio automates the control of lights, microphone, and camera settings, so that all users have to do is insert a thumb drive and push a button to capture their presentation. It comes with two options – laptop attached, or no laptop attached. When a laptop is attached, the screen of the laptop is captured in addition to a reduced image of the presenter(s).

Posted July 24, 2018

Reference hours changing

Reference librarians will be available from 7:30 am to 8:00 pm Monday thru Thursday. Reference hours are not changing Friday - Sunday. Reference help is available from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm on Friday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday, and from 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm on Sunday.

Posted July 24, 2018

One-Button studio dedication Friday, August 3rd

Parking around the library

Parking west of the north freeway is changing with the opening of the new dental school building and the apartments in the old hospital. The lot under the library will be restriped for OT and PT clinic patient parking. Creighton parking permit holders may park in the surface lot west of the dairy and the bottom level of the parking ramp using the entrance off of Burt Street. Read the details in Creighton Today.

Posted July 5, 2018

Scopus is now available. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

Watch an introductory video.

Read more about Scopus. Why choose Scopus. How Scopus works. Who uses Scopus.

DynaMed Plus to replace UpToDate: effective July 1st

For many years, Creighton University licensed UpToDate. DynaMed Plus, however will replace UpToDate beginning July 1st. The most recent UpToDate package offered to provide access to Creighton University was cost-prohibitive. DynaMed Plus maintains the following advantages over UpToDate: a three-level evidence rating system, more journal coverage, and visible links to guidelines in topic summaries.

Posted June 19, 2018

Scopus to replace Web of Science: effective July 1st

For many years, the Creighton University libraries licensed Web of Science. Scopus, however, will replace Web of Science (and Journal Citation Reports) beginning July 1st. The primary reason for this change is the efficiencies among Scopus, PURE, and SciVal. PURE and SciVal, research management tools licensed through the Provost’s office, utilize Scopus data. Be on the lookout for Scopus training session later in the summer and in the fall! Posted June 19, 2018

Ebscohost request an ILL forms are broken

Ebsco is aware and is working on the problem, but they have no estimate when the service will be restored.

Posted June 5, 2018

New Board Vitals complete collection

BoardVitals is a leading medical specialty question bank used by doctors and nurses to pass their licensing, board certification and in-service exams, and meet continuing education requirements. It provides question banks for more than 40 medical specialties' board exams, tens of medical licensing exams, NCLEX and nurse practitioner exams, dentistry NBDE part I and part II, pharmacy's NAPLEX, and physician assistant's PANCE.

It requires registration with a Creighton University email address. Once registered, you can login from anywhere with most devices.

Faculty can be provided with accounts to send customized exams to students or to utilize questions in discussions.

No unsolicited donations, please.

Due to the reorganization of the university, library positions have been eliminated, and therefore, we no longer have the staff to process unsolicited donations. The library will only accept donations we need to add to our library collection.

The new donation policy for Creighton University Health Sciences Library follows:

2.Please provide an inventory of any materials you wish to donate. The inventory item list should include the title, author, and publication date.For periodicals, please include the title, volume, number and year of each periodical issue. The title and the year range of back issues of a periodical title would suffice.

3.We will only accept material published within the most recent 10 years, unless the material has a historical significance in a subject matter for a Creighton University department.

Again, we no longer accept unsolicited material, please contact Marcella Dial to make donation arrangements at 402-280-5139 or marcelladial@creighton.edu.

Wiley Online Library change

The library did not have the budget to renew the previous "big deal" package of Wiley journals this year. We have renewed "ala carte" subscriptions to the most used Wiley journals. Sadly, many heavily used titles could not be renewed with the funds available. One can request articles from these discontinued journals via interlibrary loan for access within a day or two in most cases.

Posted April 30, 2018

Max wants you to rub his belly

Thursday, May 3rd, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Max will be at HSL for final's stress relief with a friend or two. Max is a certified pet therapy dog.

Posted April 23, 2018

An item for your graduation to do list

Before you leave campus, register for ExamMaster, BoardVitals, AccessMedicine, and ClinicalKey. Upon graduation your NetID will no longer grant you access to the library databases. However, if you register on these vendor's platforms you should have 90 more days of access. You will be able to use their licensing review question banks to prepare for NAPLEX, NCLEX, and etc. Good luck Class of 2018!

New Henry Stewart Talks for January

The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection is an unrivalled collection of over 2,400 specially commissioned, animated, online lectures by leading world experts, organized into over 130 series, 12 categories and 15 therapeutic areas. Faculty often turn to the online lectures when:

Access to WSJ.com

In a world where education and career opportunities are more competitive than ever, the need for you to obtain broader perspectives on a variety of global business issues is a necessity. Which is why the University Libraries and the Heider College of Business have joined The Wall Street Journal in a collaboration that will provide students, faculty, and staff full access to the Journal. The Journal provides career advice and ties real-world examples into what you learn, giving you the opportunity to enhance your educational experience and stay ahead .

You can use your school-sponsored WSJ membership to:

• Research topics relevant to your courses and careers

• Save and share pertinent articles with other students

• Follow companies and industries that interest you

• Track real-time stories and trends

• Enjoy the most engaging coverage of arts, culture and life

Activate your WSJ access for one year by going to this page and clicking on the WSJ.com link. Use your Creighton email address and a password you can remember. You will have to be logged in for access to WSJ.com. In a year you will have to reauthenticate.

Library closed Monday January 22, 2018

The library is closed Monday as is the rest of the university. We plan to reopen Tuesday, January 23, at 7:00 am. Please use the forms on the library's website to request services. The refdesk@creighton.edu and hslcirc@creighton.edu email accounts are being monitored. We will respond as staffing allows.

Posted January 22, 2018

Construction in the library: update

The small cluster rooms are finished and available for checkout. The construction is continuing in the north end of the upper level to create a cafeteria and vending space. As of now, the plan is to close the cafeteria in Boyne on Friday, February 2, 2018 and move vending machines and furniture to the remodeled space in the library. It should be open for use on Monday, February 5, 2018. There are ear plugs and headphones available at the service desk to help block out any construction noise. Thanks for your continued patience.

Posted January 22, 2018

Library closed Thursday for weather and will reopen Friday

Due to the winter storm, the library closed with the rest of the university on Thursday, January 11. We plan to resume regular hours Friday, January 12, opening at 7:00 am. If you need articles pulled, please email hslcirc@creighton.edu. If you need literature searches, please emailrefdesk@creighton.edu. These accounts are being monitored. Please use email to contact us, because some of the library's forms are broken. We have requested a fix from DoIT, but it is pending.

Posted January 11, 2018

Library remains closed January 2nd

The extreme cold has effected the building's systems. We are unable to open the building today. Facilities tells us they will have systems restored so that we can open tomorrow. In the meantime, we will monitor email as we did over break. We are sorry for any inconvenience.